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I haven't yet been able to verify it, but I believe these bricks to be the remnants of a walkway in College Hill Park, which is now St Mary's park.
Leisure Centre, including a 25-metre six-lane pool, viewed from St Mary's Churchyard. Designed for Southwark Council by S&P Architects working in partnership with John McAslan & Partners, 2016. Nr. Elephant & Castle, London Borough of Southwark.
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pedestrian bridge over freeway
St Mary's Park, San Francisco
freeway was built on the old creekbed
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St. Mary's Park
a residence park in San Francisco: Spanish colonial revival architecture. Noteworthy for wrought iron railing, landscaping, bright paint job and fine state of upkeep
built 1926
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Gathering before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY June Pre-Ride at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Monday evening, 24 June 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Follow BBP 24 June 2019 PRE-RIDE event at www.facebook.com/events/1204411609765993/
Elvert Barnes BMORE BIKE PARTY docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/BmoreBikeParty.html
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
Friday, 6 September 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK at exbphotos2019.blogspot.com/2019/09/friday-6-september-201...
11 x 17 Poster
Elvert Barnes 2019 FPOTW at elvertbarnes.com/2019fridaysphotos.html
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BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Step-off from St. Mary's Park along St. Mary's Street en route to Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Elvert Barnes 2019 LABOR DAY WEEKEND docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/LDW2019.html
Friday, 6 September 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK at exbphotos2019.blogspot.com/2019/09/friday-6-september-201...
Gathering before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY June Pre-Ride at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Monday evening, 24 June 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Follow BBP 24 June 2019 PRE-RIDE event at www.facebook.com/events/1204411609765993/
Elvert Barnes BMORE BIKE PARTY docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/BmoreBikeParty.html
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are an homage to those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Step-off from St. Mary's Park along St. Mary's Street en route to Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Follow BBP Friday, 30 August 2019 WET HOT BALTIMORE SUMMER RIDE at www.facebook.com/events/373370960048754/
Elvert Barnes BMORE BIKE PARTY ongoing project at elvertbarnes.com/BmoreBikeParty.html
Elvert Barnes 2019 LABOR DAY WEEKEND docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/LDW2019.html
Justin Drive, St. Mary's Park
▪ landscaped by Mark Daniels over 90 years ago
▪ homes at 'downhill', southern end of the development no longer detached
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See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
St. Mary's Park in the 500 block of St. Mary's Street in Baltimore MD on Sunday afternoon, 2 July 2017 by Elvert Barnes Photography
INDEPENDENCE DAY 4 July 2017 Project
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
Among its important qualities, Public School 27 is a fine example of the numerous schools built by the City of New York during the last decade of the nineteenth century to accommodate the waves of new students created by immigration and new mandatory education laws; that P.S. 27 represents the early design period of the City's prolific Superintendent of School Buildings, C.B.J. Snyder, during which he based his work on existing traditions of rectangular massing and emphasis on a central tower; that in P.S. 27, Snyder was also beginning to develop his new ideas of planning which would lead to his use of the H-plan on his later buildings; and that Snyder used design elements of Dutch and Federal period architecture to enhance an imposing and important neighborhood structure.
Source: "Public School 27 Designation Report", NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, 19 September 1995
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
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St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Step-off from St. Mary's Park along St. Mary's Street en route to Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Elvert Barnes 2019 LABOR DAY WEEKEND docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/LDW2019.html
See slideshow: www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157627130003394/
St. Mary’s Park is a central recreational resource in the South Bronx. In my family photo albums there are numerous images of picnics and the boys climbing various paths and rocks. When my family moved to the Bronx from Indiana, my brothers and I joined the recreation center there where we learned to swim in the indoor pool. The center was a nurturing retreat in the heat of summer and the withering cold of winter. St. Mary’s Park is where I learned to play handball and discovered the adolescent joys of male friendship and girls. The images in this series are a reminder of those sweet and innocent times.
St. Mary’s Park, one of the six original parks in the Bronx, spans the history of the borough from the settler era to urban development. The park site was once part of the estate of Jonas Bronck (1600-43), for whom the Bronx is named. During the Revolutionary War, a group of Loyalist military refugees camped here. Years later the land was held by the family of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), one of the authors of the U.S. Constitution. After 1857 the area was known as “Janes’ Hill” for owner Adrian Janes of Janes, Kirtland & Co. Iron Works, a local foundry that manufactured bridges for Central Park, railings for the Brooklyn Bridge, and the 8,909,200-pound dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1874 New York City annexed parts of the southern Bronx (formerly lower Westchester County). Seeking to create public parks in the Bronx, journalist John Mullaly (1835-1915) founded the New York Park Association in 1881. His efforts culminated in the 1884 New Parks Act and the city’s 1888-90 purchase of lands for Van Cortlandt, Claremont, Crotona, Bronx, St. Mary’s, and Pelham Bay Parks and the Moshulu, Pelham and Crotona Parkways. St. Mary’s Park was named for a Protestant Episcopal church that stood three blocks to the west until 1959.
In 1887, Mullaly described the site of St. Mary’s Park as “isolated and alone, perfect in itself, its miniature loveliness challenging comparison with the largest and fairest of its compeers.” He continued: “Its area is twenty-five acres and one-third, and within that limited space all the points that constitute the charm of a public pleasure ground are to be found in abundance: wood and water, trees and shrubs, hill and valley, barren rocks and emerald meadows; and all these so disposed that one form of beauty heightens the other by contrast.” Adding to nature’s design, architects arranged winding paths and roads, benches, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, and buildings (such as a concert stand). In 1903, Parks granted the New York Central Railroad permission to lay tracks underneath the park. The line was eventually abandoned, and the 1.2 acres occupied by the tracks were returned to the park in 1912; an additional .8 acre was added in 1968.
The park led the way in the development of recreation programs in the Bronx. The borough’s first playground opened in St. Mary’s Park in 1914. At this time, the park also had a baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a children’s farm garden. In response to rapid population growth and residential construction in the neighborhood, three additional playgrounds opened in the park between 1938 and 1941. After World War II, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses inaugurated a city-wide recreation program to provide places to play and socialize in cold weather months. New York’s first full-service, indoor recreation center opened at St. Mary’s in 1951. Designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford, and Forbes, the building housed an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, locker and shower rooms, and meeting rooms for classes and community programs. Murals of Marvel Comics superheroes were painted in the center in the early 1970s and repainted in 1991.
In 1996, a quarter-mile fitness loop and two additional tennis courts were installed in St. Mary’s Park with city funds allocated by the City Council. In 2006, Parks completed the installation of synthetic turf at Saint Mary’s Park.
Gathering Before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Start at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
FRISBEE
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Gathering Before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Start at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
FRISBEE
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235 College Avenue, St. Mary's Park
a residence park in San Francisco: Spanish colonial revival architecture
▪ built 1925
▪ five rooms
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Gathering Before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Start at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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College Avenue, St. Mary's Park
a residence park in San Francisco: Spanish colonial revival architecture
▪ built 1925
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BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Step-off from St. Mary's Park along St. Mary's Street en route to Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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I was unaware of this restaurant until now so I will quote the owners: “Located on St. Mary’s Road, Ballsbridge, Marcel’s is an elegant neighborhood bistro, offering French inspired dishes using the finest local ingredients. A sister restaurant of the Green Hen on Exchequer Street in Dublin city centre, Marcel’s joins an already strong award winning food tradition. Our beautiful first floor dining room overlooks St Mary’s Park”.
St. Mary's Park, San Francisco
part of the former archdiocese lands turned into a three tiered park by the WPA in the 1930s
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St. Mary's Park in the 500 block of St. Mary's Street in Baltimore MD on Sunday afternoon, 2 July 2017 by Elvert Barnes Photography
INDEPENDENCE DAY 4 July 2017 Project
Gathering before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY June Pre-Ride at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Monday evening, 24 June 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY June Pre-Ride Start from St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Monday evening, 24 June 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Gathering Before BALTIMORE BIKE PARTY RIDE Start at St. Mary's Park at 600 North Paca Street in Baltimore MD on Friday evening, 30 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
FRISBEE
Follow BBP Friday, 30 August 2019 WET HOT BALTIMORE SUMMER RIDE at www.facebook.com/events/373370960048754/
Elvert Barnes BMORE BIKE PARTY ongoing project at elvertbarnes.com/BmoreBikeParty.html
Elvert Barnes 2019 LABOR DAY WEEKEND docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/LDW2019.html